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March 5, 2022

Patience pays, MMD’s Fackson Ngoma begs citizens

Fackson Ngoma dancing – Picture by Kwilanzi News Zambia (KNZ) Zambian Children Young People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD). www.kwilanzinewszambia.com By Esther Munika Mwananshiku Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) New Hope Lusaka District Vice Chairperson Fackson Ngoma has advised members of the public to give the new dawn government more time, citing that it is too early to criticize them or to term them as failures. “As MMD we have decided to work together with the new dawn government and to also give them time because it is the right thing to do,” said Mr. Ngoma. The Vice Chairperson says that New...

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March 5, 2022

Government pays TAZARA Salary Arrears, brags Frank Museba Tayali

… Chambeshi Railway Bridge and Bombwe Bridge repair ready By Ndubi Mvula, Public Relations Officer (PRO) Transport and Logistics Ministry FOLLOWING a directive by President Hakainde Sammy Hichilema, Transport and Logistics Minister Frank Museba Tayali is paying salary arrears owed to Tanzania Zambia Railways (TAZARA) employees. Mr. Tayali is delighted that Government has sourced for funds for the repair works on the damaged Chambeshi Railway Bridge in Kasama, Northern Province and Bombwe Bridge on Mulobezi Railway line in Western Province. Touring Mpika and Kasama, Tayali assured the employees that the financial woes at TAZARA will end as he had engaged...

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March 5, 2022

PNUP attends Africa policy brief

By Derrick Sinjela ZAMBIA Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) has elected the Party for National Unity and Progress (PNUP) Highvie Hambulo Hamududu, as the Board Chairperson and Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) National Secretary, Ms. Elizabeth Chitika as Spokesperson. In a Monday, 20th December, 2021 Press Statement, ZCID Executive Director Doreen Njovu- Kabwe says Mr. Hamududu takes over from the Forum for Political Parties (FPP) Chairperson and Golden Party of Zambia (GPZ) Mr. Jackson Silavwe, who served for two consecutive terms. Ms. Njovu- Kabwe thanked Mr. Silavwe for his unwavering leadership, professionalism, assertiveness and hands on approach in building ZCID’s...

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March 5, 2022

ZNFU’s Calvin Kakoma Kaleyi tags 2021-2022 agro season difficult

  By Derrick Sinjela ZAMBIA National Farmers Union (ZNFU) Public Relations Manager Calvin Kakoma Kaleyi has described the on-going 2021-2022 farming season as a difficult mixed bag crowded by late rains, late input distribution, army worms and partial drought. In a telephone interview in Lusaka, Mr. Kaleyi observed that despite noted challenges, Zambia can be transformed in to an agricultural production hub through prudent management of the sector and emphasis on irrigation and mechanisation. In apparent reference to heeding lessons learnt, Kaleyi says timely distribution disbursement fertilizer is essential to coping with unpredictable weather patterns, as experienced in Namwala District...

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March 5, 2022

Dangote Cement crosses the Frontiers

By Davis Mataka Dangote Cement in Ndola has become the largest Zambian exporter of cement and other cement products to the  Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda Zimbabwe and Malawi. The firm has also taken pole- position as the single highest manufacturing sector net contributor of tax in the country. Chief Executive and Country manager Vipul Agrawal said in an interview in Ndola that the $400 million investment plant, the single largest cement industry in the Sadc region was exporting 1/3 of its annual production to the DRC market. He revealed that It was a strategic decision that the plant was...

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March 5, 2022

FNB Zambia 2022 Lusaka Business EXPO Platinum Sponsor cheers Kabanda Lilanda

By Rainbow Business Writer In a practical Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and local entrepreneurial improvement, FNB Zambia Head of Business & Commercial, Kabanda Lilanda confirms earning funding of the 2022 Lusaka Business EXPO slated for Thursday, 5th to Saturday, 7th May, 2022 as a Platinum Sponsor after committing K300,000 towards the PUSH Women’s Network themed: ‘Adopting New Technologies for Climate Responsive Business, Trade and Investment’. Since 2013, when FNB started operating in Zambia, the bank initially established in Grahamstown, South Africa in 1838 has continued to adapt in line with its diverse customers’ changing needs. With an ethos built on...

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March 5, 2022

Mwenya Musenge’s NDC back HH’s ‘Infrastructure Revolution’

By Ashton Kelly Bunda NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) President Mwenya Musenge says his party is geared to support United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance team of President Hakainde Hichilema and the New Dawn Government to consolidate unprecedented infrastructure development, including a  campaign against shanty compounds and reducing Zambia’s  1, 3 million housing deficit that has keeps rising every decade. Franked by Joseph Kasonde, Mr. Musenge predicted that though Hichilema will succeed in transforming Zambia into a better country, the 7th Republican President will face many challenges in the first five years, the entrepreneur-turned politician has to find a way...

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March 5, 2022

New Dawn inputs cheer Best Muyaya

By Auspine Sichoombe, ZANIS  in Chikankata District, Southern Province Munyomezi Ward Councilor in Chikankata Constituency of Southern province Best Muyaya has paid Kudos to the UPND New Dawn Government for timely distributing the 2021-2022 farming inputs to all the Small Scale Farmers in Munyomezi Ward. Mr. Muyaya said government deserves a pat on the back for the gesture and urged the New Dawn government to iron out all the lacunas surrounding Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP). However, in a Tuesday 22nd February, 2022 interview with this Zambia News and information Services reporter in Mapangazya, Muyaya expressed worry that heavy rains...

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March 5, 2022

KNOW YOUR PRESIDENT: PERSONAL PROFILE FOR MR SEAN E. TEMBO

1. Sean Enock Tembo (SET) was born on 30th of March 1980 in Jabu Village, Chief Kapatamoyo, Chipata District of Eastern Province of Zambia, from Mr. Gideon Tembo and Mrs. Vaida Tembo. He is the 5th born in a family of 9, of which only 4 are currently surviving. His father was a Miner and worked for Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), Nchanga Division in Chingola before his untimely demise in 1989 when SET was 9 years old. President Sean Tembo grew up in Mtendere Compound of Lusaka and he started his primary school in 1986 and completed his Grade...

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